Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, an

Azure Storage Services Services Service Use When MCP Tools CLI Blob Storage Objects, files, backups, static content azure storage az storage blob File Shares SMB file shares, lift and shift az storage file Queue Storage Async messaging, task queues az storage queue Table Storage NoSQL key value (consider Cosmos DB) az storage table Data Lake Big data analytics, hierarchical namespace az storage fs MCP Server (Preferred) When Azure MCP is enabled: azure storage with command storage account list List storage accounts azure storage with command storage container list List containers in account azure storage with command storage blob list List blobs in container azure storage with command storage blob get Download blob content azure storage with command storage blob put Upload blob content If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp . CLI Fallback Storage Account Tiers Tier Use Case Performance Standard General purpose, backup Milliseconds Premium Databases, high IOPS Sub millisecond Blob Access Tiers Tier Access Frequency Cost Hot Frequent Higher storage, lower access Cool Infrequent (30+ days) Lower storage, higher access Cold Rare (90+ days) Lower still Archive Rarely (180+ days) Lowest storage, rehydration required Redundancy Options Type Durability Use Case LRS 11 nines Dev/test, recreatable data ZRS 12 nines Regional high availability GRS 16 nines Disaster recovery GZRS 16 nines Best durability Service Details For deep documentation on specific services: Blob storage patterns and lifecycle [Blob Storage documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/storage blobs overview) File shares and Azure File Sync [Azure Files documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/files/storage files introduction) Queue patterns and poison handling [Queue Storage documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/queues/storage queues introduction) SDK Quick References For building applications with Azure Storage SDKs, see the condensed guides: Blob Storage : [Python](references/sdk/azure storage blob py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure storage blob ts.md) [Java](references/sdk/azure storage blob java.md) [Rust](references/sdk/azure storage blob rust.md) Queue Storage : [Python](references/sdk/azure storage queue py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure storage queue ts.md) File Shares : [Python](references/sdk/azure storage file share py.md) [TypeScript](references/sdk/azure storage file share ts.md) Data Lake : [Python](references/sdk/azure storage file datalake py.md) Tables : [Python](references/sdk/azure data tables py.md) [Java](references/sdk/azure data tables java.md) For full package listing across all languages, see [SDK Usage Guide](references/sdk usage.md). Azure SDKs For building applications that interact with Azure Storage programmatically, Azure provides SDK packages in multiple languages (.NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust). See [SDK Usage Guide](references/sdk usage.md) for package names, installation commands, and quick start examples.

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